I’ve been playing around with making math web apps now that the AI has made the barrier to entry for coding way lower. Case in point, we’ve played the game Odd Pig Out for a while now. It’s a favorite for sure! It [...]
I’ve been making arguments for some time about the power of a play-based approach to teaching and earning mathematics in elementary school. There are a lot of signs pointing to the value of this approach. The power of play and its [...]
Today’s blog post comes from Hannah Whitaker. Hannah taught elementary math across a broad range of pedagogies in New York City and in Denver and served as a mentor and model teacher for innovation schools in Denver. She currently [...]
If you know the Choral Counting Opener, this simple web-app makes it easy to get an advanced look at what patterns might emerge. You can try starting at different numbers, counting by positive or negative integers, decimals, or fractions. [...]
I invented a small game off the cuff last night. I needed a super quick game to play with my 6.5-year-old before bedtime, so I went with “whoever picks the lowest number wins.” I refined it today. I’m sure versions of [...]
We’ve been involved in a wonderful partnership with our local elementary school. This puts us, occasionally, in the classroom of our own first grader (quite the treat!) as well [...]
We concocted these experimental rules some years back, in an effort to give people a way to play Prime Climb with younger players. The goal was to give kids a way to get started when they could add but not yet multiply. Recently, [...]
My son (6 yo) was eating his breakfast before school today, and started asking me questions about math. It started by asking about groups of 1 – is 4 groups of one 4? Is 8 groups of one 8? I was trying to get everything done to get [...]
I’ve been helping Early Family Math update their website, and keep happening on materials that I’ve co-created with them, but haven’t thought about in a [...]
As part of a joint effort with earlyfamilymath.org to create a fun activity for high school kids to teach to pre-K through 2nd graders at math nights (more on that later), [...]
For teachers in and around Seattle, we’re happy to announce that some motivated teachers and coaches will be leading a new round of Math Teacher Circles this May & June, 2025, using our materials from the last [...]
When math works itself into political debates at the national level, it generally takes the form of a cudgel. To whit, the president wields a large number as the reason he needs to take away a fundamental right: the right to a [...]
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